{"id":1191,"date":"2004-10-21T05:23:26","date_gmt":"2004-10-21T13:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/10\/21\/its-schadenfreude-time-or-is-it\/"},"modified":"2004-10-21T05:23:26","modified_gmt":"2004-10-21T13:23:26","slug":"its-schadenfreude-time-or-is-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=1191","title":{"rendered":"It&#039;s Schadenfreude Time! (Or is it?)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/chronicle\/archive\/2004\/10\/19\/MNGVD9C5OA1.DTL\">San Francisco Gate <\/a><\/i>(and via <a href=\"http:\/\/bushvchoice.blogs.com\/bvc\/2004\/10\/antichoicers_ba.html\">Bush v. Choice<\/a>).<\/p>\n<div class=\"snip\">The U.S. Supreme Court rejected an appeal Monday from abortion opponents in Southern California who were ordered to pay legal fees to Planned Parenthood after they unsuccessfully sued the family-planning group to require it to declare a link between abortion and breast cancer.<\/p>\n<p>The suit was dismissed in 2002 by a San Diego judge who rejected the plaintiffs&#8217; claim that a connection between abortion and cancer was scientifically established. The three plaintiffs were ordered to pay the organization $130,000 to cover legal fees under a state law that provides attorneys&#8217; fees to targets of merit-less suits that seek to thwart free expression.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Actually, I&#8217;m not sure if I should be feeling <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/h2g2\/guide\/A287255\">schadenfreude <\/a>or not. It&#8217;s possible that the three women suing are actually such idiots that they didn&#8217;t think it was possible for Planned Parenthood to disagree in good faith about the issue (which is what they&#8217;d have to believe to think that PP had engaged in false advertising). In that case, they&#8217;re three fools fooled by the pro-life movement, and I feel sorry for them.<\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s also possible that they knew full well that their suit was a nuciance suit with no merit, in which case they&#8217;re three jerks who deserved what they got.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the San Francisco Gate (and via Bush v. Choice). The U.S. Supreme Court rejected an appeal Monday from abortion opponents in Southern California who were ordered to pay legal fees to Planned Parenthood after they unsuccessfully sued the family-planning &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=1191\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion-reproductive-rights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}